Genetics DNA

Punnett Squares are used for what?

• Determine the chances of traits of offspring

• Multiplication

• Determine alleles and how to pair them up

• To show squares within a square

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What is the percentage of homozygous recessive traits?

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

• 100%

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What are the 3 parts of DNA

• Sugar Phosphate Backbone

• Nitrogenous Bases

• Hydrogen Bonds

• Twizzlers and marshmallows

Gregor Mendel...

• was known as the "Father" of genetics.

• discovered genes come in pairs one from each parent.

• is still alive today

• stars in the new movie with Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart

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Mendel discovered...

• stuff

• peas are plants

• there are dominant and recessive traits

• nothing

What is genetics?

• Study of jeans

• Study of genetics

• Study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics

• Study of genes

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Traits are.....

• inherited from generation to generation

• are not expressed in every generation

• passed down from parents

• are overrated and not needed.

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Alleles do what?

• Create an Eel

• Make letters

• Are letters

• Are forms of the gene.

Recessive alleles are represented by

• lowercase letters

• Capital letters

Heterozygous are shown by

• different letters like a and x = ax

• different alleles like A and a = Aa

• a letter and a number like 1 and a = 1a

• animals

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